The Sioux Falls League of Women Voters and the Sioux Falls Area Chamber of Commerce are hosting a public forum on eight of the ballot measures this Thursday,…
Tag: initiative
Today’s Brown County Democratic Forum featured speeches and lively Q&A with our District 3 House candidates Nikki Bootz and Brooks Briscoe. At both today’s event and her…
I have regularly recommended that South Dakota Democrats seek synergy with ballot measures. Discussing ballot questions gets us away from personal attacks. Given the opportunity to vote…
…High School Debate Judges to the Rescue? The Sioux Falls Area Chamber of Commerce isn’t fooled by Lisa Furlong’s outright lies about Amendment U in the official ballot…
Yesterday I featured West River attorney Mark Vargo’s opposition to Amendment S; today I spotlight East River attorney Ryan Kolbeck’s opposition to Amendment S. How’s that…
The Sioux Falls Area Chamber of Commerce does a fair job of summarizing the reasons for and against Referred Law 20, Senator David Novstrup’s youth sub-minimum wage. Let’s…
24* states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical cannabis. That’s 54% of the U.S. population. This November, another 8% may join that total, as Montana,…
Sioux Falls petitioner Bruce Danielson informs me that the city has disqualified every sheet of the initiative petition he submitted last week with the signatures of over 6,400…
What’s the difference between a Libertarian and a liberal? Maybe 40%? Ken Santema, Libertarian SoDakLiberty blogger, has summarized his positions on all ten statewide ballot issues. Let’s…
Update 2015.09.15 10:19: The original August 9 version of this story reported 20 committees, with no opposition to 19, 20, R, or S. Since that…